Legacy of Lies: El Salvador 1981-1984 - Hardcover

Robert Nickelsberg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3969001536 ISBN 13: 9783969001530

Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, 2024

Synopsis

Previously unpublished images by the TIME magazine photographer illuminate an important chapter in Latin American history.

In the early 1980s, the Cold War clashes that had bloodied other parts of the world shifted to Central America. Following the overthrow of Nicaragua's Somoza government by the left-wing Sandinista rebels in 1979, the United States sought to prop up El Salvador's right-wing military government as a backstop against home-grown insurgents and rising Soviet and Cuban influence. Its role helped fuel a lethal 13-year civil war. Legacy of Lies contains previously unpublished black-and-white images that American photographer Robert Nickelsberg produced on behalf of TIME magazine and is supplemented by essays by renowned journalists.

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About the Author

Robert Nickelsberg worked as a TIME magazine contract photographer for nearly thirty years, specializing in political and cultural change in developing countries. After covering Central and South America and the conflicts taking place there in the mid 1980s, he established his base in Asia. Living in New Delhi from 1988 to 1999, Nickelsberg recorded the rise of religious extremism in South Asia. His work has also encompassed Iraq, Kuwait, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Indonesia. Nickelsberg has documented Afghanistan since 1988, when he accompanied a group of mujahideen crossing the border from Pakistan. His 2013 book, A Distant War, published by Prestel, captures his 25 years of work in Afghanistan.  Nickelsberg was named the 2013 winner of the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for Afghanistan-A Distant War given for the best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines and books. His photographs have been exhibited at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, the Queensborough Community College, the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University and at The New America Foundation in New York. He received grants for reporting on and photographing post-traumatic stress disease in Kashmir, India from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and the South Asian Journalism Association in 2008. In 2015, the O’Halloran Family Foundation presented Nickelsberg with a grant for his ongoing domestic sex trafficking project; Nickelsberg lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Crary Pullen, and is represented by Getty Images.

From the Back Cover

Bisher unveröffentlichte Bilder des Time-Magazin-Fotografen beleuchten ein wichtiges Kapitel lateinamerikanischer Geschichte.
In den frühen 1980er-Jahren waren die politischen Entwicklungen des Kalten Krieges in Mittelamerika von einer beunruhigenden Energie geprägt. Nach dem Sturz der Somoza-Regierung in Nicaragua durch die linken sandinistischen
Rebellen im Jahr 1979 verstärkten die Vereinigten Staaten ihre Unterstützung der rechten Militärregierung El Salvadors gegen den zunehmenden sowjetischen und kubanischen Einfluss und die linke Ideologie in Lateinamerika und heizten so den 13-jährigen Bürgerkrieg in El Salvador an.
"Legacy of Lies" enthält bisher unveröffentlichte Schwarz-Weiß-Bilder, die der amerikanische Fotograf Robert Nickelsberg für das Time Magazin aufnahm, und werden ergänzt durch Essays von renommierten Journalist*innen.
Robert Nickelsberg arbeitete fast 30 Jahre lang als Vertragsfotograf für das Time Magazin und war auf politische und kulturelle Veränderungen in Entwicklungsländern spezialisiert.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3969001536
• ISBN 13: 9783969001530
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192